About this title: Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music "simply peerless," in Nick Hornby's words, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 2005-07-27
ISBN-13:9780571223855ISBN:0571223850
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2006-04-03
ISBN-13:9781586483821ISBN:158648382X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Public Affairs
Date Published: 2006-04-03
ISBN-13:9781586483821ISBN:158648382X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781586483821ISBN:158648382X
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Edition: ARC (advance reading copy). Promotional material laid in, 1st
Binding: Pictorial wraps (Softcover).
Publisher: Public Affairs, NY
Date Published: 2005
Description: Near Fine. The book condition is NF, top of spine bumped. read more
"Who would've thought there was anything to be said about Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" 40 years on? Critic Greil Marcus proves us wrong by plumbing the development of the opus, and by placing the song within the context of the music that surrounded it, the swirl of social and cultural events, and its musical antecedents (if any).
As Marcus asserts, though a masterpiece of craft and will, the song might never have happened--the sound was a glorious accident amid numerous missteps and failed takes in the studio. And though there were riveting live performances afterwards, it was as though the song possessed the singer, not the other way around.
Marcus quotes one astute commentator as saying that "Like a Rolling Stone" seemed to insist on an instantaneous liberatory revolution in the United States, of Americans living like "Napoleon in rags," without the safety of names, riches, destination, the complacency of assumed identities.
Perhaps the melancholy of any book that pivots on an "event" in the Sixties is the recognition that the country wasn't wholly and miraculously altered, and Marcus's text isn't free of that sentiment. It's as though he almost faults Dylan for having merely a "career" after the iconic moment.
Still, Marcus's connections are often surprising such as his claim that one can find traces of "Rolling Stone" not only in Jimi Hendrix's "The Star Spangled Banner" but also the Pet Shop Boys' "Go West," because all three songs imply an unmapped country.
And he is excellent in his critique of post-"Stone" albums like "Blood on the Tracks" and "Time Out of Mind."
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